Red, Green and Brown Gingerbread Tablescape for Kids

I love decorating tablescapes for kids.

Yesterday, I hosted my husband’s family of almost 40 people for our annual family Christmas party.

I wanted to set up a boy’s gingerbread themed table and a girl’s gingerbread themed table. I’ll post the girl’s gingerbread tablescape soon.

The activities I had for the kids after dinner were: decorating mini gingerbread houses, decorating foam gingerbread men, and a dig kit with a gingerbread house inside it. The adults did white elephants.

I started by covering a 6′ folding table with brown craft paper and by running a red and white stripe paper runner down the center.

The centerpiece of the table was a large gingerbread house from Costco on a cake stand with red and white ribbon tied around the base of the cake stand.

I knew that my littler ones would make a mess of the large house, so they got mini houses to decorate while my older daughter and I decorated the two large centerpieces—one for each table.

My daughter, Aurora is very artistic.

I told her that I wanted to try and match this mini gingerbread house below.

She did a fantastic job.

I was so fun to put on Christmas music and decorate gingerbread houses together just us.

My kids got to decorate twice in a row. At the party all of the kids got to decorate their own mini Oreo houses.

We filled candy cups for each child about 1/3 full with sprinkles to decorate their gingerbread houses with; the Oreo kits that I purchased didn’t have a lot of variety.

I also put gumdrops in a candy cup for decorating.

M&M’s in glass trees.

Gingerbread cookies to use or eat if they wanted to in gingerbread themed candy dishes.

My sister-in-law adored these glass candy dish ornaments so much, I gave the three of them to her for a party she is soon hosting.

Plus, there were green and red gum balls to bring in a pop of green and red and for fun.

My favorite items on the table were these gingerbread-themed nutcrackers.

I just could not get over how cute they were when I saw them.

I love how the man’s outfit matched the glass gingerbread houses I have set out on the table.

Their boots match the peppermint candy napkins on the table.

My kids and I set the table with gingerbread house dinner plates and gingerbread men dessert plates.

I loved the different napkins that I bought and I couldn’t decide which to use…

I figured that little kids always need more napkins (especially when decorating gingerbread houses), so I put 2-3 napkins at each setting.

We also set out clear crystal cups and clear forks from Costco.

And to finish it off we tied candy canes onto each chair.

using red gingerbread men ribbon

and put a little gingerbread box on everyone’s seat with favors inside.

I hung a gingerbread house banner behind the table on the banister with the garland.

I thought it along with the faux pine garland with red cranberries made a cute backdrop.

It was so much fun!

If I were to do it over though… I’d buy small pre-made gingerbread houses because those Oreo ones were kind of a pain to put together! They worked, but that is what I’d do differently if I were to throw another gingerbread party.

We had a great time and it was fun to celebrate Christmas together with the Pulsipher family.

Merry Christmas!